Joseph N. Welch

Born: 1890-10-22 in Primghar, Iowa, USA

Died: 1960-10-06

Known For: Acting

Biography

Joseph Nye Welch (October 22, 1890 – October 6, 1960) was an American lawyer who served as the chief counsel for the United States Army while it was under investigation for Communist activities by Senator Joseph McCarthy's Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, an investigation known as the Army–McCarthy hearings. His confrontation with McCarthy during the hearings, in which he asked McCarthy "Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last?", is seen as a turning point in the history of McCarthyism.

Filmography

2024

Turning Point: The Bomb and the Cold War as Self - Special Counsel for the Army (archive footage)

2012

Ethel as Self (archive footage)

2005

Good Night, and Good Luck. as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

1991

Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker as Judge Weaver (archive footage)

1964

Point of Order! as Self

1960

The Dow Hour of Great Mysteries as Self – Host

1959

Startime as Self – Host
Anatomy of a Murder as Judge Harlan Weaver

1958

Small World as Self

1948

The Ed Sullivan Show as Self